Actress Mousumi Chatterjee says she is fortunate to have been cast in a full-fledged role in Aparna Sen's next film "Goynar Bakso", which she feels has done justice to her age.
The 59-year-old actress, who enlivened the screen by portraying sweet next-door girls in both Hindi and Bengali films, says the role in "Goynar Bakso" (Jewellery Box) has increased her appetite to do "good, meaningful" work.
"Unlike Aparna Sen's earlier film 'The Japanese Wife', where too I played the role of an old aunt immersed in her own world at a remote Indian village, here I am partly real and partly imaginary," Mousumi said.
She said she would be privileged to be part of any next Aparna Sen project as well.
"May be only a director like Aparna Sen can think in an out-of-the-box fashion on such an issue, weaving the tale of a girl around a jewellery box," Mousumi told PTI.
She said she had relived her "Balikabodhu" days during the shooting for the film which is based on a short story by leading Bengali novelist Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay.
Mousumi regretted that big ticket producers and directors here in Bengal hardly considered her for their projects in the intervening phase after Uttam Kumar starrer "Ogo Bodhu Sundari" which was released decades ago.
"I don't believe in PRs. Everybody knows how I am. My works will prove. Tell your directors why can't they consider me for a role befitting my age," she said.
The actress was floored by Bengali film "Bhooter Bhabisoyt" which has set a benchmark in the comic genre and is being remade in Hindi.
